The O'Reilly Network (and the entire O'Reilly Nerd Empire) kicks all kinds of ass. Today, they're running an interview where Tim O'Reilly (the guy who wrote the first-ever user manual for Unix — kind of Moses for technical documentation), Rael Dornfest (whose bizcard says "Maven" and who invented a cool content-syndication tool called Meercat), David Sims (an amazing editor at the network) and David Stutz (just about the coolest Microsofty you'd ever hope to meet, one of the super-genii behind Visual Basic, and the owner of a truly impressive Unix-grade beard) have a freewheeling discussion about Microsoft's announcement that they're licensing some of the code necessary for implementing .NET under the FreeBSD open source license. Both sides get good licks in, and the result is balanced and awfully entertaining. Link Discuss
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